Error with logging channel audit_log

Jeremy C. Reed Jeremy_Reed at isc.org
Tue Aug 12 19:54:02 UTC 2008


On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Mark A. Moore wrote:

> named[25935]: logging channel 'audit_log' file '/var/log/named.log': 
> file not found
> 
> The permission for named.log is a follows -rw-r--r--  root  named.
> 
> Here is a partial output of named.conf file:
> 
> logging {                                                                                                                   
> channel default_syslog {                                                                                                    
> // Send most of the named messages to syslog.                                                                               
> syslog local2;                                                                                                              
> severity debug;                                                                                                             
> };                                                                                                                          
> 
> channel audit_log {                                                                                                         
> // Send the security related messages to a separate file.                                                                   
> file "/chroot/named/logs/named.log";                                                                                                  

File name doesn't match up.

But this gives me a hint that you are running named with -t for chroot.

So use channel file that is within your chroot like:

file "/logs/named.log";

mkdir -p /chroot/named/logs/ # before starting named


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